Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Peru and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Godley & Creme to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by UT. All the underground hits.
All Jesper Dahlbäck tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
D'Angelo,
The Smoke,
Joyce Sims,
Young Marble Giants,
Rekid,
The Buckinghams,
Gang of Four,
Deepchord,
The Searchers,
Depeche Mode,
Monolake,
Silicon Teens,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Residents,
David Axelrod,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Radiohead,
La Düsseldorf,
Loose Ends,
Sonic Youth,
Erykah Badu,
Main Source,
The Red Krayola,
Country Teasers,
The Raincoats,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Davy DMX,
Fatback Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Slits,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Monochrome Set,
Pierre Henry,
The Pop Group,
the Bar-Kays,
Severed Heads,
Malaria!,
Avey Tare,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ultravox,
Surgeon,
Camouflage,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marcia Griffiths,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Rakim,
Robert Görl,
Khruangbin,
Todd Rundgren,
Juan Atkins,
The Count Five,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Frankie Knuckles,
Can,
Little Man,
Lungfish,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Angels of Light,
The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes, The Tremeloes.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.